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  1. Why incels take the "Blackpill"–and why we should care (arstechnica.com)
    ×6.04 64 | 19 points by nreece 4 hours ago | 19 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  2. Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview
    ×3.27 44 | 143 points by leeny 2 days ago | 101 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  3. WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator (netbymatt.com)
    ×3.00 37 #81 | 687 points by adam_gyroscope 1 day ago | 130 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  4. Ask HN: How do I learn practical electronic repair?
    ×1.20 53 | 6 points by juanse 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  5. I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic (wave3.social)
    ×4.30 31 | 286 points by nswizzle31 1 day ago | 633 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  6. Human coders are still better than LLMs (antirez.com)
    ×5.13 29 #75 | 601 points by longwave 1 day ago | 702 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  7. Learn touch typing – it's worth it (typequicker.com)
    ×2.76 36 #51 | 40 points by absoluteunit1 5 hours ago | 44 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  8. Taylor Swift Buys Back and Will Reissue First Six Albums (variety.com)
    ×3.78 44 #83 | 7 points by homarp 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  9. Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook (stribny.name)
    ×2.17 27 | 426 points by petr25102018 1 day ago | 108 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  10. Ask HN: What's your most unpopular dev opinion?
    ×3.24 66 | 5 points by Sourabhsss1 1 hour ago | 4 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  11. My website is ugly because I made it (goodinternetmagazine.com)
    ×3.20 25 | 533 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 126 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  12. Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups (thriftytraveler.com)
    ×3.71 24 | 299 points by _tqr3 1 day ago | 462 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  13. Why Writing by Hand Is Better for Memory and Learning (scientificamerican.com)
    ×3.53 29 #49 | 43 points by andsoitis 6 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  14. Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
    ×2.17 24 #61 | 209 points by VladVladikoff 21 hours ago | 166 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  15. Silicon Valley finally has a big electronics retailer again: Micro Center opens (microcenter.com)
    ×4.85 23 #28 | 224 points by modeless 10 hours ago | 117 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  16. Vrs: Personal Software Runtime inspired by Emacs, Plan 9, Erlang, Hypermedia (github.com/leoshimo)
    ×2.53 20 #60 | 121 points by surprisetalk 16 hours ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  17. FLUX.1 Kontext (bfl.ai)
    ×2.69 18 #70 | 504 points by minimaxir 1 day ago | 115 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  18. Toxic Origins, Toxic Decisions: Biases in CEO Selection (ssrn.com)
    ×1.88 19 #64 | 99 points by marojejian 16 hours ago | 58 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  19. The radix 2^51 trick (2017) (chosenplaintext.ca)
    ×2.02 18 #53 | 403 points by blobcode 1 day ago | 80 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  20. AI video just took a startling leap in realism (arstechnica.com)
    ×2.10 33 | 3 points by doener 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  21. Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude (techcrunch.com)
    ×3.20 19 #30 | 95 points by kordlessagain 8 hours ago | 25 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  22. Hardware IDs, HWID Bans, HWID Spoofers, What Are These? (steemit.com)
    ×1.92 29 | 3 points by kulaciz 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  23. Designing Resilient Event-Driven Systems at Scale (infoq.com)
    ×2.15 21 | 5 points by msolujic 4 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  24. Losing the War for the Free Internet (anarc.at)
    ×2.27 22 | 4 points by pabs3 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  25. US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal (bloomberg.com)
    ×9.31 14 | 562 points by master_crab 2 days ago | 506 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  26. Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years (thenationalnews.com)
    ×1.70 15 #33 | 155 points by danso 12 hours ago | 70 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  27. The Polymarket users betting on when Jesus will return (wordpress.com)
    ×3.41 13 | 313 points by surprisetalk 3 days ago | 597 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  28. Most new cars in Norway are EVs. How a freezing country beat range anxiety (washingtonpost.com)
    ×2.09 16 #89 | 9 points by bookofjoe 6 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  29. Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen (cybercultural.com)
    ×2.06 12 | 411 points by panic 2 days ago | 181 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  30. L.A. council backs $30 minimum wage for tourism workers, despite warnings (latimes.com)
    ×2.38 17 #40 | 6 points by walterbell 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  31. The End of Big Data (vice.com)
    ×2.55 11 | 4 points by asdfology 3 hours ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  32. The Who Cares Era (dansinker.com)
    ×6.77 7 | 681 points by NotInOurNames 2 days ago | 708 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  33. Google Duo will be replaced by Google Meet in Sept 2025 (9to5google.com)
    ×2.53 15 #22 | 13 points by phantomathkg 1 hour ago | 17 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  34. Could AI Make a Scorsese Movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky Discuss (ft.com)
    ×2.13 17 #48 | 4 points by admp 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  35. Italian Brainrot (wikipedia.org)
    ×2.52 12 #69 | 4 points by jruohonen 2 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  36. Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust (desktopdocs.com)
    ×2.78 6 | 583 points by katrinarodri 2 days ago | 437 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  37. Irritation Is Inspiration (jeetmehta.com)
    ×0.93 6 #87 | 27 points by j4mehta 13 hours ago | 15 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  38. AI Responses May Include Mistakes (os2museum.com)
    ×3.03 8 #9 | 121 points by userbinator 2 hours ago | 94 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  39. Show HN: Leap – Full-stack AI developer agent that deploys to AWS (leap.new)
    ×0.88 6 #56 | 14 points by machekb 6 hours ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  40. Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI (bondcap.com)
    ×2.07 3 #15 | 137 points by kjhughes 10 hours ago | 59 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  41. De Bruijn notation, and why it's useful (blueberrywren.dev)
    ×1.14 1 #37 | 127 points by blueberry87 16 hours ago | 38 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  42. Show HN: Asdf Overlay – High performance in-game overlay library for Windows (github.com/storycraft)
    ×0.83 1 #55 | 63 points by storycraft 14 hours ago | 16 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  43. Every 5x5 Nonogram (pixelogic.app)
    ×2.08 1 #27 | 57 points by eieio 8 hours ago | 23 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
  44. Robot is 3D-printed upside-down in one piece, then walks out of the printer (newatlas.com)
    ×0.74 1 #29 | 7 points by Brajeshwar 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???